Re: [Selenium-users] how to find this element

[Howard Bandy]

Jamie Orchard-Hays wrote:

I've got a table with a dynamic number of rows. I want to find a link 
(edit or delete), but I don't know the customer number coming into the 
pge. (I do know the customer code, which is text in the first cell.)

Is there any way to leverage the info on the row to reference the 
links via DOM or XPath (or other) if I don't know the customer number?

Here's what a row looks like:

<tr class="table_row">
<td class="table_init_col">CODE</td>

<td>Test Company</td>
<td>Test Contact</td>
<td>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</td>
<td>123-123-1234</td>
<td>
<form   method="POST" id="customer79" 
action="http://a/really/long/path/here/customer%2CListCustomers.vm/action/customer.CustomerManagement";> 

<input type="hidden" name="customer_id" value="79"/>

<a  style="text-decoration: none;" 
href="http://a/really/long/url/here/customer%2CCustomer.vm?customerid=79";> 

    <img src="http://a/shorter/path/images/icon_edit.gif"; alt="Edit" 
border="0">
</a>

<a  style="text-decoration: none;" href="#" 
onClick="submitAction('customer79','doDelete')">
    <img src="http://a/shorter/path/images/icon_remove.gif"; 
alt="Remove" border="0">
</a>
</form>
</td>
</tr>

Thanks,

Jamie
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Jamie,

Why, yes, there is a way (I was just dealing with this not too long ago 
:).  Try this:

| click | 
xpath=//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'yourTable']//tr[td='uniqueCustomerCode']/td//a/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Edit'] 
| |

You may have to wait a while for this line to execute (takes almost a 
minute to get past it on my machine for the table I'm testing), so you 
may want to try and keep these kind of xpath evaluations to a minimum.  
Hope that fixes your problem, good luck!

-Howard
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